Back in 2006 Frank wrote a post about a couple of Google Earth animations of toys being built in Google Earth. If you haven’t seen them before, try them out now:
- A toy aeroplane
built from “Lego™” by ‘barnabu’ - A log cabin built with “Lincoln Logs™” by ‘jpwade’
They are both time animations so to watch them click the play button on the time toolbar.
We also looked for large real life toys in Google Earth and managed to find an enormous knitted rabbit in Italy. Read more about it here.
The knitted rabbit has been on a hillside in Italy since 2005 and has largely decayed since then (right image is from 2012)
Other large toys we looked for were either not very clear in satellite imagery or were temporary installations that had not been caught in imagery. Moving to Street View we were able to find some interesting examples:
A big rocking horse in Australia, appropriately named Big Rocking Horse
LegoLand California
To find the locations featured above in Google Earth download this KML file
